Yidan Guo is a young pianist living in Boston, Massachusetts. She has served as a judge on several piano competitions including Steinway Piano Competition, Australia International Music Competition, MMTA Piano Contest. She is a member of several teachers’ associations including MMTA (Massachusetts Music Teachers Association), NHMTA(New Hampshire Music Teachers Association), MTNA(Music Teachers National Association) and NEPTA(New England Piano Teachers Association). She has received Teaching Artist Certificate from Longy’s School of Music and is designated as Boston Area Director by GOCAA(The Global Outstanding Chinese Artists Association).
As a pianist she received high praises from many master musicians such as Arbo Valdma, Robin Zebaida, Robert Sipos-Ori, George Lepauw, Donald Berman, Weihui Mao, Vadym Kholodenko, Yafen Zhu and Aylish E. Kerrigan. The famous piano educator Arbo Valdma once praised her playing as “not only with rich, solid techniques, but emotional and touching at the same time”.
Yidan started learning to play the piano at the age of 4. Later she studied at Xiamen Music School for elementary education. Since the beginning of her piano study, she has attended many piano performances and competitions, and received numerous praises and awards. She has studied under many great educators including pianist Ying Gai from Xiamen, Professor Ziyu Gu from Central Conservatory of Music, young pianist Nian Jiang from Guildhall School of Music in London, Chinese pianist Cheng Qian and Japanese pianist Rieko Aizawa. In 2013, she applied for master’s degree in piano performance and received offers from Northwestern University, Mannes School of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music (with high scholarship), Manhattan School of Music as well as Longy School of Music. After graduation in 2015, she founded Yidan Piano Studio, offering piano lessons to students across all ages.
With 15+ years of piano teaching experience. Many of her students have made great achievements under her supervision in their piano study. In recent years, many students from her studio have won first places in Young Artist Piano Competition, Little Mozart Competition, American Protégé International Music Talent Competition, Great Composer Master of Piano Sonata Competition, Elite International Music Competition, AFA Festival, Paderewski International Piano Competition, among which some are invited to perform at New York Carnegie Hall together with New York Philharmonic and Los Angeles Philharmonic. Students from her studio not only are encouraged to attend piano competitions, but also to attend and perform at benefit concerts at churches and nursing homes. In 2018, her piano studio successfully held “Music for Love” benefit concert, where all donations were sent to Boston Trauma Fund.
Besides performances and competitions, she often invites famous pianists/conductors to give master classes exclusively to her studio’s students, including famous conductor Benjamin Zander, Director of Boston College of Music Max Levinson, famous Singapore conductor Peng Liu, and renowned young pianist George Li. The master classes were all held very successfully and well received by students and their parents.
Yidan received piano teaching awards across many countries in the world. Following are highlights of Outstanding Teacher Award she received from numerous piano competitions and organizations.
郭藝丹 钢琴家，现居波士顿。多个钢琴大赛评委，包括美国斯坦威钢琴大赛，中澳國際大賽評委，MMTA钢琴大赛等。榮獲郎吉音樂學院教師藝術家榮譽，YDPS創辦人，美國MMTA教師，馬塞諸瑟州MTNA教師，新罕布什尔州NHMTA教師，新英格蘭NEPTA教師。新英格蘭NEPTA青少年音樂會主席，全球傑出華人藝術家協會波士頓地區理事長 。
Arbo Valdma，Robin Zebaida，Robert Sipos-Ori，George Lepauw，Donald Berman，Weihui Mao, Vadym Kholodenko，Yafen Zhu，Aylish E. Kerrigan等多位音樂界大師都對她有過極高的評價。德国科隆音乐学院（Hochschule für Musik Köln）著名钢琴教育家Arbo Valdma稱讚她 “不僅擁有精湛的演奏技巧，同時富有音樂抒情性的演奏，令人感動”。4歲開始學琴，2013年考取美国西北大学（Northwestern University），曼尼斯音乐学院（Mannes School of Music）并且同一时间被克里夫蘭音樂學院（Cleveland Institute of Music），曼哈頓音樂學院（Manhattan School of Music），longy音樂學院（Longy School of Music）等学校高额奖学金錄取。自習琴以來，多次參加比賽及演出，獲得無數好評。她曾經獲得多個國內外比賽大獎，2011年应邀德國Steinway&Sons在中國地區擔任獨奏。
教学20年，培养出一批杰出的钢琴学生。多名學生榮獲（Young Artist Piano Competition）新英格蘭青少年藝術家鋼琴比賽『第一名』，美國 Little Mozart Competition『第一名』，美國國際天才青少年音樂家（American Protege International Music Talent Competition）比賽『第一名』，美国杰出作曲家奏鸣曲比赛（Great Composer Master of Piano Sonata Competition）『第一名』，Elite International Music Competition『第一名』, AFA Festival 钢琴比赛『第一名』， 帕德雷夫斯基国际钢琴比赛（Paderewski International Piano Competition）『第一名』，每年都有学生被邀請于紐約卡內基音樂廳表演，並與紐約交響樂團，洛杉磯交響樂團合作協奏曲，意大利Recanati交響樂團合作。她不僅鼓勵學生多參加比賽，同時還定期舉辦慈善音樂會。 2018年舉辦Music for Love 慈善音樂會，大獲成功，並將善款全部捐給Boston Trauma Fund機構。
作為指導老師她曾獲得美國音樂界頒發的獎項，包括Paderemski International Piano Competition Outstanding Teacher Award ，斯坦威top教师奖，美國傑出作曲家組委會授予「人才培養傑出獎」，天才青年教師協會授予「傑出教師獎」，美國天才國際音樂大賽授予「卓越傑出獎」，美國青年藝術家協會「Outstanding Teacher Award」，金色大廳Fine Arts授予「最高教育獎」等等。